Work Ethic – Having it, Expecting Others to Have it

[Grinner Hester]

Owners are far different. They’d simply pop that tape in and start the dub more often than not. Sure, they may have you stay back and lable it but they also throw a bone your way, unlike managers who have no reason to.
Management seldom knows squat. It’s why they manage instead of makin’ stuff. Hell, my last boss didn’t know the difference between a CD and a DVD and he was the one selling them.
I’ve been at this for a quarter of a century and never has a manager above me known what it takes to get the job done. Their job was to always pretend like they knew what was going on then split early, making the artists feel like they had something to work toward.

[Mark Alexander]

While working at a staff gig at a large post house a manager from another area said he liked my work and that he’d like to see me working for him. I asked how that could happen and he told me flat out to screw something up on the current job assignment in order to get my current manager to want to get rid of me. He would pick me up after the dust settled. “Hmm, no thanks but interesting management style you have there”.

I thought that “advice” was way out of wack with anything resembling fair and honest work (and moral) ethics but on another occasion an assistant editor taqgged some porn onto the end of a reel of “family oriented programming” as a joke and of course it ended up being seen by the client. He was fired. Next day he was hired at another post house as a staff editor. Jeez.

I’m self employed now and my screw ups are mine, the successes are ours and the glory is the clients. So far so good.

Mark